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And that's part of why we're talking about "service". The idea that you could put up with a little bullshit for a year to help your country.

That obviously doesn't resonate with you, but it does with some. Which is fine- you don't have to be interested.

(Sure, a no-bullshit government to work in would be great, but we don't have that yet)




See, this attitude is bullshit.

If you're asking people for help, you need to treat them like professionals and not children. That means don't get in the way them doing their jobs, don't impose bullshit requirements like literally asking people for their urine and don't do many of the other counter-productive things that government agencies have etched in stone as essential policy.

If you can't do that, your system is broken, and won't get as good of people as it ought to and that's the problem of the people who created it, not the people who are interested in doing you a fucking solid.


Sure, the system is broken. Except that system is our government, so it's all of our problem.


Yeah. And if you find a broken system you've generally got two choices:

  1) Work for it.
  2) Don't work for it.
I agree it's actually complicated to determine which is more effective in creating change. But I think you and I have merely chosen different approaches on this spectrum, rather than fundamentally disagreeing about anything deeper.




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